The Effects of Organizational Commitment on Social Loafing Behaviour at Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

A review of the studies on organizational commitment in scholarly articles reveals that the “three

dimensional model of organizational commitment” based on the studies of Meyer and Allen (1990) is com- monly accepted. They have scaled organizational commitment as affective, continuance and normative com- mitment. In social psychology, ‘social loafing’ is defined as the phenomenon of people exerting less effort to

achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone, resulting in lower motivation levels

and reduction in tendency to exert efforts.This study aims to highlight the importance of the concept of or- ganizational commitment at the level of institutions of higher education, by establishing the its influence on

social loafing, in light of the existing scholarly articles. The study will employ a survey study as the qualita- tive method in order to test if the model developed by Meyer and Allen in 1990 work for those engaged in

higher education, or not.